Waiting On That Mack Truck

Just to maintain my sanity at work, I have to physically leave the office before 7am when people start arriving for their workdays. There are two people in particular who I deliberately try to avoid. I would prefer to leave the office than be there and have to interact with them in any capacity. I don’t even care to wish them a good morning because I genuinely don’t care how their mornings go.

Ernie and Erika are a tag team of annoying and worthlessness. Combined, they bring nothing of value to the office environment. Individually, they are annoying in their own right.  Together, they are truly unbearable.  I can’t stand either one of them.

Kim is so annoyed by the current office environment that she decided to spend today working in another office over 40 miles away.  She had to escape too and was willing to travel a long distance to do it. I almost joined her too. Almost. She’s annoyed by different coworkers, though she is also looking to be avoidant just like I am.

Unless people leave our office for transfer opportunities, we can only hope that they’ll all get hit by the same or different Mack trucks. A boy can dream.

There’s a certain ineptitude with some of the newer members of our management team. The department is always looking to promote people into these positions of power, but it seems that these people don’t know what the hell they’re doing, and it shows. Yes, there’s always going to be a learning curve, but even after they’ve been in those positions for a few months, it just doesn’t seem that they’ve improved or have learned how to do their jobs. So, now we’re left to contend with management who don’t know what the hell they’re doing. It truly is a matter of the blind leading the blind.  I continue to keep my distance.

I told someone in the office that while I wish not to be part of the problem, I also want nothing to do with being part of the solution. I just want to sit there, do my work, and get the hell on when the day is done. I’m not trying to train anyone. I’m not trying to talk to anyone. I’m not trying to interact with anyone. I just want to be left alone and be left to do my work in peace.

This isn’t to say that I don’t have friends in the office. I do. I’m just not looking to add to the existing list of friends I already have. My introverted brain has had enough of the current office bullshit and I’m reaching a point where I’m tired of acting like I’m outgoing or that I care that much. I don’t.  I truly don’t.  If I’m wishing that people get struck by Mack trucks, you have to know that I am angry and definitely not happy.  Yes, I am definitely wishing hateful shit on people.  That’s how frustrated I am and it sucks.

It wasn’t always like this at work.  Sadly, it’s not getting any better.  As time progresses, Kim and I see it getting gradually worse.